When did God tell mankind His gift of the Seventh Day had been changed to the first day?
Also, what are people observing when they consider the first day the Sabbath of the Lord God?
I honor God by believing Him on this issue and not man.
I know I am savd by grace........
Weh do some morons tell me I am under the law simply because I prefer to believe God before I believe man?
Alo, why associate kosher with people who believe the Father on His designation of the Seventh Day as a gift to man?
I am not under the law. I know of no one who honors teh Father by heeding Him on the day of rest who is under the law, although we do all do our best to obey God......read at least, Ephesians.
I believe there is a huge misunderstanding of what "under the Law" means.
The wages of sin is death. The law says if I transgress the Commandments of God, I die. But we have all died. We are all "under the law". Which means dead. Under the curse of the law means dead. The "law of sin" contained in ordinances, is the part of the law that says "The soul that sin's shall die".
It is falsely taught for centuries that being "Under the Law" means being under the instructions of God. But this is not true.
Rom. 8:
14 For sin (which caused our death)
shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, (Dead) but under grace.(alive having our past transgressions removed)
15 What then? shall we sin,(transgress God's Commandments) because we are not under the law, (dead) but under grace? (alive)
God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or
of obedience unto righteousness?
You might ask yourself, obedience to what?
Paul concludes in Rom. 7,
Rom. 7:
21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
No curse here as many preach. No burden, no Yoke, no talk about how God created Laws no man could follow and they Killed thousands who didn't keep it.
No God's Laws are "Good".
23 But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin (Death)which is in my members.
Paul finds his flesh, pride, selfishness, covetous, wickedness deceitful. This flesh hates God and God's instruction.
Rom. 8:
7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be.
But he also said this SIN that is in all mankind shall not have dominion over him. Because Jesus has promised to remove it (Grace) and Paul has Faith that this is true.
24 O wretched man that I am!
who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Not God's Commandments, but death. That is the curse of the Law. That is what it means to be "Under the Law".
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Whose Grace made me alive again)
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.
With the Grace of Christ,(not the works of Paul) AND with the law of God (not the works of Paul) Paul will overcome his flesh which has been condemned to death by the law of sin.(The soul that sins shall die)
This "law of sin" which states we die if we live in disobedience to God, that is contained in ordinances, is the only law that is against us. The law can't give life, only Jesus can do that. The Law takes life.
Col. 2:
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us,
which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross;
It is a false teaching that Jesus nailed what they call the entire "Mosiac Law" to the cross. He blotted out the part of the law contained in ordinances that was against us. And the only part of God's Commandments that are against us is the part that says if we sin we die.
As Paul clearly explains:
Rom. 7:
5 For when we were in the flesh, (when we didn't rule over our flesh)
the motions of sins,
which were by the law, did work in our members
to bring forth fruit unto death. (The Law says we sin, we die)
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we
should serve in newness of spirit,(Grace gave us another chance to begin anew)
and not in the oldness of the letter.(You sin, you die)
Anyway, I hope you don't mind me hijacking your post. Please let me know if you find something missing in this study.
Very good post JJ
